1. Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
   "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" 
2. Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
   - furrowed 
3. Topographically very uneven
   "rugged ground"
   - broken 
4. Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
   "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"
   - tough

Derived forms: ruggeder, ruggedest

See also: canaliculate, corrugated, difficult, hard, knockabout, robust, rough, ruggedly, ruggedness, rutted, rutty, strength, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, unsmooth

Antonym: delicate

Encyclopedia: Rugged

• conductress
• conduit
• condylar
• condylar process
• condyle
• condylion
• condyloid process
• condyloma acuminatum
• Condylura
• Condylura cristata
• cone
• cone cell
• cone clutch
• cone friction clutch
• cone pepper
• cone shape
• cone-bearing
• cone-nosed bug
• cone-shaped
• coneflower
• conelike
• conenose
• conenose bug
• Conepatus
• Conepatus leuconotus